Can you feel your blood sugars going up and down?

[Kristinabalina]

My husband thinks I am crazy, but I have got to ask my fellow Type 1's.

I can feel my blood sugars going up or down. I'm not talking about feeling low or high but I know when they are moving. I know that sounds bizarre but I swear I'm not crazy (and I'm usually 98% right when it does happen)

Anyone else experience this?

[grace girl]

I don't know if "feel" is the right word for me, but I can tell. I've learned to recognize it over time. I wouldn't trust it as far as correcting for a high or treating a low, but I've learned to test when I notice it and I'm usually right.

[SueM]

Yes I notice the my bs levels changing too.

[TenderVittleS]

I can definetely feel when my BS starts to drop too low because I get hungry and very irratable. If my BS is starting to get a little high I smell something in my sinuses, like an alcohol smell in my nose, yeah its weird.

[ant hill]

I can feel my blood sugars going up or down. I'm not talking about feeling low or high but I know when they are moving. Anyone else experience this?

I have the same feeling as I know coming from a low you feel great. :D But going low that is reverse. :mad:
With this you would think that we don't need meters but we are not that sure are we??

[Jodie]

I normaly know when i'm low, high or normal. i'm normaly about right as well. I think if blood monitors were not around then I think I would cope perfectly well without one

[kstreeter513]

I can usually tell too. Sometimes when I get nervous, I feel the same way I do at the beginning stages of a hypo. Do you ever feel that?:questionm

[Olidus]

My wife knows that I' high before I do - as I have a sweet smell that comes off my breath. The Odd time I can smell it as well when I'm high, like if I yawn or something.

I have also heard of some people that get headaches going from high to low and vice-versa.

[Cyborg]

Whenever my bg is a little high or a little low I almost always feel it...

[xMenace]

Yes, but I drink a lot of coffee which I find masks things :( My evil eye knows though. As I get higher, it gets 'tighter' and blurrier.:1eye:

[Kristinabalina]

When I was little my Mom could smell the sweet smell on my breathe and know I was high.

The feeling I am talking about is like when you drink a cup of coffee first thing in the morning and you get that buzzing feeling in your veins. Do you know what I mean? Like you can feel the caffeine rushing through your veins.

I can feel when I am too high or too low but it's the in between.

[Peggy]

I'm a T2 but I can feel it when my BS is changing, especially if it's moving fast. It may still be within the normal range but a rapid change makes me lightheaded. Feels completely different than a high or a low.

[jeggeman31]

Whenever my bg is a little high or a little low I almost always feel it...

Same here. My feet feel like I walked 10 miles with no shoes on, when my BS get above 250. Only way I know I am low, is my hypo feeling I get at about 50.

[ctskierguy]

I can feel when I go over 150, but on the other hand I don't feel my lows until it's well below 50. And I can feel it when it's making a rapid swing in either direction, even if it's not going off the chart in either way.
But all of this has only been since I started pumping. Previously I could only tell when I was reaching seriously high numbers, over 300 or so.

Mike

[lilituc]

I can usually tell. It's how I figured out I was diabetic. I actually feel the worst when my bg is going up quickly.

[JediSurfer]

I used to beable to tell when my BG was moving up or down. But not so much these days. I think thats because my body has become used to it over the years.
I know more when I am rising or high than low.

[dbc]

No, Can't say I'm aware of bg moving - I am only aware of a low once it goes below about 2.8/50 or so. I can't tell the difference between being lowish - say 4-4.5 (70-80) and just being plain hungry!

The only way I know I'm high is when my meter tells me - but then the highest I've been in the last 3 years is somewhere around 14/250, maybe not high enough to feel the effects??

[thomasb]

there are a lot of things that can mask a low for me. Like if im out walking, i usually wont feel it even if im around 3(54). Same if i've had a lot of coffe. Or been drinking of course. It is annoying.

Highs are easier to tell though. i feel like someone stuffed my head with cotton. or sometimes with glue. hard to tell...

[sbuff28@charter]

I feel lows instantly. I usually catch myself as soon as i hit 80 just by how i feel. When i go high it takes me like 1-2 hours at 200 to start to feel dehydrated and sick to my stomach.

Your not crazy, cuz if i go to sleep and get a high blood sugar for like 6-8 hours. i am done for the rest for the day it makes me feel very sick and i throw up in the morning most of the time this happens.

[Cyborg]

I feel lows instantly. I usually catch myself as soon as i hit 80 just by how i feel.

Yikes! 80 is actually my target. That's my comfort zone... :eek:

[Jenn L]

My nose tingles when I go low.... my 1st "diabetic trainer" (He He We need "TRAINING")said this was common.?? If my sugar is high, my head itches, right above my ears. I give it a 75% effective rate.

[deansreef]

i became immune to feeling low (after 19yrs on MDI)- even at 30 or lower. my wife would bring me juice and say your low- i would say you are crazy i am not drinking that juice...give her a hard time. She was right every time! but did I learn..NO!!

Now that I am on the pump I am becoming a lot more aware of lows.

Dean